1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Grab those and here's what I wanted you to discuss 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,500 with a close by partner, ready? 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,680 What do you think if you added up, 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:17,680 if you added up credit cards, personal loans, 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:24,560 payday lending, automobiles, mortgage, add the mortgage 6 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,840 in there and this is for everybody, 7 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,760 the average American, what do you think their debt balance 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,360 would be, the average American, discuss, ready go, discuss. 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:42,520 Total debt. 10 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:47,600 What do you think? 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:01:03,600 I'll get you my stuff off. 12 00:01:47,600 --> 00:02:01,600 All right, we had a lot of numbers thrown at us. 13 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:06,600 According to, and I got to actually, 14 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,280 I got to look at my source here. 15 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:10,560 I have a source. 16 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:12,800 Where is it? 17 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,240 It may be in my office. 18 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,360 Oh, here we go. 19 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,160 Oh, this is according to Experian.com, 20 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,680 a consumer credit review, all right? 21 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,640 The number is, does anybody wanna do the drum roll? 22 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:36,600 96,371 dollars. 23 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,600 Okay, the question was, Mike, thanks for keeping up. 24 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,560 The question was, the average American holds 25 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,560 the debt balance of so much and that would be everything. 26 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:53,840 All right, yeah, there you go. 27 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:56,760 That is good, yeah. 28 00:02:57,640 --> 00:03:00,320 So that total comes from a variety of sources, 29 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,400 credit cards, car loans, student loans, mortgages, 30 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,360 and of course some people, if you factor in kids, 31 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,160 kids don't necessarily have loans if you factor in, 32 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,320 you know, hopefully not, some kids may, 33 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,600 depending on how their parents raise them or whatever. 34 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,320 And it depends on what you call a kid. 35 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,680 There's kids who are looking younger and younger to me, 36 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,920 for sure, that's part of it. 37 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:28,920 So debt is a very normal experience 38 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,080 in the American culture, right? 39 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,520 And, but it doesn't mean it's good. 40 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:39,040 The Bible says that the borrower is slave to the lender, 41 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,360 you know, and that's not a good thing. 42 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,000 Tonight, I wanna talk a little bit about what, 43 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,480 about a different kind of debt. 44 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,040 I'm not gonna grill you about your finances. 45 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,160 We're not gonna do that tonight, 46 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,080 but you and I had a debt, didn't we? 47 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,960 We had a sin debt and that debt was an unpayable debt. 48 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:08,120 It was the kind of debt that we could work 24 seven, 365, 49 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,160 and no matter what we do, we couldn't pay it off. 50 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,440 And that debt was a sin debt, right? 51 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,720 One of the things about the religions of the world 52 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,600 is almost every religion really kind of comes down 53 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,400 to the same thing outside of what I would talk about 54 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,640 with biblical Christianity, and that is, 55 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,280 because there's even some forms of unbiblical Christianity 56 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:33,600 that would say that basically how it all works out 57 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,600 is that there's good people, there is a good God, 58 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,760 and there's a good place, right? 59 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,840 And good people who do good things get to a good place, 60 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:48,560 and bad people who do bad things go to a bad place. 61 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,200 And the question you gotta ask is how good is good enough, 62 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:52,040 right? 63 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,840 What is good, first of all, what's good? 64 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,640 Can your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds? 65 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,760 And even in our own system of justice, 66 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,080 we understand that good deeds can't outweigh bad deeds, right? 67 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,080 If I were to murder somebody and I get caught, 68 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:11,400 there's cameras everywhere. 69 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:12,880 Have you noticed there's cameras everywhere? 70 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,400 And if I were to get caught, and I were to stand before a judge 71 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,640 and the judge were to say, hey, Ben, 72 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,280 I see it says here you're a pastor. 73 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:23,880 That means you probably do a lot of things 74 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,600 that even people who disagree with you think are good, 75 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,080 you try to help people that are struggling with their marriages, 76 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,600 you try to help the poor, 77 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,520 you try to get people to do good things, 78 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,200 you volunteer a lot of your time, you're a nice guy, 79 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,120 and I could kind of come up with a list of all of my credentials 80 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,280 and all the things I try to do that's good. 81 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:45,320 And I could say, judge, here's all the things I do. 82 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,480 Can we just let this one go? 83 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:47,680 And you know what he would say? 84 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,280 The good things you do can't make up for the fact 85 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:53,400 that there's somebody that's dead who agrees with me. 86 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,840 Our good deeds can't make up for our bad deeds. 87 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:00,240 If you do the crime, you do the time. 88 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,200 So we have this sin debt. 89 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,120 And when you start thinking about the way God thinks about sin, 90 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,040 man, you sin a lot. 91 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,960 And we sin a lot. 92 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,360 This debt that we have maybe financially 93 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,560 is only a shadow of a greater debt we all do owe, 94 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,920 and that's the debt of sin. 95 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,920 Accumulated over a lifetime of sinful, sometimes rebellious, 96 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,800 choices made against a holy God. 97 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,920 But unlike the rest of our debts, 98 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,840 the debt of sin can never be cleared in our own effort. 99 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:45,000 Because part of the problem is, 100 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,960 one way to stop going in debt and to get out of debt 101 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,960 is to stop going in debt. 102 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,920 What do they call it, a plasticity? 103 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:04,400 Cut up the credit cards, sell the vehicles, 104 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,280 sell the house, sell some stuff. 105 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,280 Have you ever heard of Facebook marketplace? 106 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,280 Make the kids worried that you're going to sell them. 107 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,280 That's how you get out of debt. 108 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,280 If you have a lot of debt, that's what you got to do. 109 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,280 The problem is, we are sinners. 110 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,280 Have you known anybody that was a Christian and a sinner? 111 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,280 Raise your hand if you're a Christian and a sinner. 112 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,280 That's all of us, right? 113 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,280 So we can't even stop. 114 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,280 We've got our problem, don't we? 115 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:39,280 We've got a problem. 116 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,280 And that problem is, we have a sin debt 117 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,280 and that sin debt keeps accumulating. 118 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Even when we try really hard and we give our effort to it, 119 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,280 man, just trying won't make it happen. 120 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:56,280 We don't need just to do better. 121 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:01,280 We need a spirit transformation, right? 122 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,280 That's what needs to happen. 123 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,280 And so here's the bottom line, though. 124 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,280 Jesus came and he paid our debt. 125 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,280 He came to pay our debt. 126 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:19,280 And his payment makes possible for us to be free from the debt 127 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:24,280 of sin and not just free from the debt of it 128 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,280 and not just free from the penalty of it, 129 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,280 but even one day to be free from the presence of it. 130 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,280 It's going to be an amazing thing. 131 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,280 Tonight we're going to look at the death of Jesus. 132 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,280 And I know we just went through the Easter season, 133 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,280 but we're talking about Jesus and this seems to be good timing 134 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,280 for us to get there. 135 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:48,280 Jesus died to pay the debt of our sin. 136 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:49,280 That's why he came. 137 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,280 He came to pay our sins debt. 138 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,280 So what did the death of Jesus accomplish? 139 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,280 If you have your Bibles, we're going to look at Luke chapter 23. 140 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:03,280 And we're going to look at what the death of Jesus accomplished 141 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:04,280 for us. 142 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Now if you get to Luke chapter 23, I need to pull it up here 143 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:17,280 so I'm looking at the context and what the Bible says. 144 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:23,280 This is the chapter in Luke where he talks about, 145 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,280 where the Bible tells us about Jesus' death. 146 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,280 And when you get down to verse 32, here's what it says. 147 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:37,280 And there were also two other malifactors led with him to be 148 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,280 put to death. 149 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:43,280 And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, 150 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,280 there they crucified him and the malifactors, 151 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,280 one on the right hand and the other on the left. 152 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:55,280 Then Jesus, then said Jesus, Father forgive them for they know 153 00:09:55,280 --> 00:10:05,280 not what they do and they parted his raiment and cast lots. 154 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,280 We'll stop there for a second. 155 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:16,280 This is a very simple passage in the sense that, 156 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,280 in the sense that it's just telling the story of what exactly 157 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,280 happened at the cross. 158 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,280 When you talk about malifactors, somebody raise your hand and 159 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:31,280 tell me what's a malifactor, who are these people? 160 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,280 They're called thieves in another spot. 161 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:35,280 They're criminals. 162 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:40,280 They're people whose crimes obviously from the Roman 163 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:45,280 perspective would be punished by capital punishment, right? 164 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,280 Crucifixion is not something that's always been around. 165 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:50,280 The Romans perfected it. 166 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,280 I don't think they invented it, but they perfected it. 167 00:10:53,280 --> 00:11:00,280 So they are like many efficient bureaucracies. 168 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,280 They're not just going to kill one man at one time. 169 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,280 They're going to kill three at one time. 170 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:14,280 And actually this is a fulfillment of prophecy because it 171 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,280 is in the Old Testament that he numbered with the transgressors. 172 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,280 We know that this is a fulfillment of prophecy even that he 173 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,280 would be here with these thieves. 174 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,280 But I think it's interesting what Jesus says. 175 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,280 I've done series as before. 176 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,280 In fact, this may be something I do again at some point about 177 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,280 Jesus' statements from the cross. 178 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,280 You can read the different gospels account for different things 179 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:39,280 that he said. 180 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,280 One of the things he said, here in Luke's accounting of it, the 181 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,280 first thing he says is directed to the father. 182 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:53,280 Father forgive them for they know not what they do. 183 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,280 Does that mean that they had no cognition of what they were 184 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:57,280 doing? 185 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,280 Does that mean that they didn't, they couldn't, if you were to 186 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,280 ask somebody standing there, what are you guys doing? 187 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,280 Well, we're crucifying these three criminals, right? 188 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,280 What was it that they didn't get? 189 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:16,280 They did not understand the gravity and the weight of the 190 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:21,280 identity and the, and exactly what was happening. 191 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:27,280 I mean, at the end of the day, who here signed a check in the 192 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,280 last couple of weeks? 193 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,280 Who here wrote a date somewhere? 194 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,280 Did you write a date on that check? 195 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,280 Did you write the date down today? 196 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,280 What's today's date? 197 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:47,280 April 24th, 2024. 198 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:56,280 That means before 2024 there was a 2023 and a 2022, 2021. 199 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:57,280 What am I trying to say? 200 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:02,280 You rolled that back all the way, something went down at zero. 201 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,280 Has this world been around longer than 2,000 years? 202 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:11,280 We're telling, even people who hate God are telling time by 203 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,280 the Son of God, right? 204 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:21,280 And so something went down and what was happening was monumental 205 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:25,280 and redemptive history and in all of history Jesus, the Son of 206 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,280 God, was dying. 207 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:31,280 He was not saying that they didn't understand physically what 208 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:36,280 was happening, what he was saying is they don't understand that 209 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,280 they're crucifying God. 210 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:44,280 And it gives you a clue as to what Jesus' attitude towards, he 211 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:50,280 was dying for the very people who were sinning. 212 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,280 He was dying for the sin that they were committing by 213 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,280 crucifying him. 214 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,280 I believe with all my heart that there were people at the 215 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:08,280 crucifixion who later believed in who Jesus was and what he did 216 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,280 and call themselves Christians today. 217 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:15,280 We know that because Mary was there and John was there, at 218 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,280 least them, right? 219 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:22,280 And so what we see is that Jesus died and here's the point, he 220 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,280 died for the remission of sin. 221 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,280 He died for the remission or the forgiveness of sins and that's 222 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:35,280 obvious even in what he's saying in the moment here of 223 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:40,280 crucifixion, just the very beginning of it. 224 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,280 You also see here it talks about they parted and they parted 225 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,280 his raiments and cast lots. 226 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,280 This is not in my notes but I think this is interesting. 227 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:54,280 If you're everybody, we'll go to Psalm chapter number 22. 228 00:14:54,280 --> 00:15:12,280 Psalm chapter 22. 229 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:17,280 My Bible software that I use on my iPad, Esau, it's pretty fun. 230 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,280 I like it a lot. 231 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,280 It says a heading. 232 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:25,280 Does yours have a heading at the top of Psalm 22? 233 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,280 Does it give an attribution to who wrote Psalm 22? 234 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,280 Psalm of who? 235 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:32,280 David. 236 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Who's David? 237 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,280 King of Israel, right? 238 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,280 This is David of David and Goliath fame. 239 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,280 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 240 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,280 Why are they far from helping me and from the words of my roaring? 241 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,280 Oh, my God, I cry in the, what does it say? 242 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,280 It's not in the time. 243 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,280 But thou hearest not in the died season and not silent. 244 00:15:54,280 --> 00:16:00,280 That holy that inhabits the praise of Israel. 245 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:05,280 Look down to verse 6. 246 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:11,280 All they that see me laugh me to scorn, they shoot out the lips. 247 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:15,280 They shake the head saying, he trusted in the Lord that he 248 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,280 would deliver him. 249 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,280 Let him deliver him saying he delighted in him. 250 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:24,280 Go down to verse 14. 251 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:29,280 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint. 252 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,280 My heart is like wax. 253 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,280 It is melted in the midst of my bowels. 254 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,280 There's an interesting thing going on here. 255 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,280 David's talking about himself, but he's also prophetically 256 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:42,280 talking about Jesus. 257 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:47,280 So you have some of the things that you're going, well, you know, 258 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,280 the first verse, what does that remind you of? 259 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,280 Look back at the first verse, my God, my God, why hast thou 260 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,280 forsaken me? 261 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,280 What does that remind you of? 262 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,280 What Jesus said on the cross. 263 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,280 Now, there's some kind of prophecies that you can fulfill. 264 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,280 There are self-fulfilling prophecies, have you ever heard 265 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,280 of those? 266 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,280 There's some prophecies where you can say, you know, predict 267 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,280 something is going to happen on Friday. 268 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,280 And then on Friday you just remember to do it. 269 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,280 That's kind of like a to-do list, right? 270 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:22,280 You know what I mean? 271 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,280 Like I'm going to do this on Friday. 272 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:25,280 It's a calendar. 273 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,280 So someone said, Jesus said what he knew was in the Old 274 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:29,280 Testament. 275 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:33,280 But there's some of the things in here that those people that 276 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,280 hated him were fulfilling. 277 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,280 People that knew this psalm were doing what's here in the psalm. 278 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,280 For instance, it says that they were shooting at the lip and 279 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:44,280 laughing at the scorn. 280 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,280 Was that happening at the crucifixion? 281 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:48,280 Absolutely. 282 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:55,280 If you go down to verse 1 that was talking about all my bones 283 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:59,280 around a joint, verse 14, I poured out like water, all my 284 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:00,280 bones around a joint. 285 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,280 My heart is like wax, it's melted in the midst of my bones. 286 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,280 There was something, this was written before crucifixion was 287 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:07,280 a thing. 288 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:12,280 And that's a great description, verse number 14, of what happens 289 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,280 at crucifixion. 290 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,280 Bones go out of joint. 291 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:23,280 Remember when Jesus gave up the ghost and the Bible says he 292 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,280 gave up the ghost and the Romans, what did they do? 293 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,280 They took a spear and they plunged it into the side of Jesus 294 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,280 and what did it say? 295 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,280 Blood and water flowed. 296 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,280 And that describes a medical condition that only happens after 297 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,280 someone dies. 298 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,280 It's what happens when the heart literally does what's saying 299 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,280 here and that's exactly what happened. 300 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:56,280 He says, look down to verse 18, they part my garments among 301 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:03,280 them and cast lots upon my vassure. 302 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:11,280 Now go back to our passage in Luke 32, verse number 34, then 303 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,280 Jesus said, Jesus' father forgive them for they know what 304 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:22,280 they do and they parted his raiment and cast lots. 305 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,280 Do we have a Bible that's pretty incredible? 306 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:31,280 Psalm of David written hundreds of years before Jesus came and 307 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:36,280 described what happens at his crucifixion. 308 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:43,280 Why did God plan to become flesh and dwell among us and then 309 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:44,280 die? 310 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,280 One reason is for the remission of our sins. 311 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,280 Number two, Jesus died for the redemption of our souls. 312 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,280 The redemption of our souls. 313 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,280 Look at verse 35. 314 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:03,280 And the people stood beholding, again this is connected to what 315 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:07,280 we just read in Luke, sorry in Psalm chapter 22. 316 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,280 The rule is also with him, derided him saying he saved others, 317 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,280 let him save himself if he be Christ the chosen of God. 318 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,280 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering 319 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:22,280 him vinegar and saying if he be the king of the Jews, that would 320 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,280 be the king of the Jews save thyself. 321 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,280 And our superscription also is written over him in letters of 322 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,280 Greek and Latin and Hebrew. 323 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:37,280 This is the king of the Jews. 324 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:38,280 The king of the Jews. 325 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,280 This is what the sign read which was put on the cross of Jesus. 326 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,280 Though the sign was meant as mockery, it was ironically the 327 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,280 statement of at least part of the truth, right? 328 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,280 Jesus was and is the king of the Jews but that's not all. 329 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,280 He's the king of the universe. 330 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:59,280 Verse 39, one of the malefactors which were hang railed on him 331 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,280 saying if thou be Christ save thyself and us. 332 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:04,280 I love this. 333 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:10,280 But the other answering rebuked him saying, does thou not fear 334 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,280 God? 335 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,280 Seeing thou art in the same condemnation. 336 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:22,280 And we indeed justly, what is he saying? 337 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,280 We have the same condemnation. 338 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:25,280 What's condemnation? 339 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,280 We have the same punishment. 340 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,280 We have the same verdict. 341 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,280 We have the same issue going on. 342 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,280 We're on the cross just like he is. 343 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:42,280 But we are here, it says justly. 344 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:51,280 Do you ever, brother Dave, you go to the prison sometimes. 345 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,280 You've done that ministry before. 346 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:58,280 Have you ever heard somebody that's in jail claim to be innocent 347 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,280 of the charges? 348 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,280 Has anybody ever heard of that happening? 349 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,280 Who thinks it's more often the case that people in jail say I'm 350 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:13,280 here but I'm innocent or I'm here but I'm guilty and I should be 351 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:14,280 here. 352 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,280 Which one do you think is more? 353 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,280 Probably innocent. 354 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,280 There may be some that say I'm here because I did wrong. 355 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:22,280 It just depends. 356 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,280 I'm sure both happen. 357 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:28,280 This guy is saying we're here and we did the crime. 358 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:29,280 Right? 359 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,280 But this guy is innocent. 360 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,280 31, we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our 361 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:41,280 deeds but this man hath done nothing amiss. 362 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:47,280 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest 363 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,280 into thy kingdom. 364 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,280 Now get the picture. 365 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:06,280 What was the claim of the religious leaders against Jesus? 366 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,280 What was capital punishment that they then had to take to Rome? 367 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,280 Why were they, what was the charge? 368 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,280 The charge was blasphemy and what was blasphemous? 369 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,280 He made himself to be God. 370 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:29,280 They packaged that in the language of he calls himself the king of 371 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,280 the Jews. 372 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,280 Why? 373 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:40,280 Because the Messiah they knew was going, is going to be a king. 374 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:41,280 Right? 375 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:47,280 They know that this Messiah is going to end up on David's throne. 376 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,280 So if this Jesus is calling himself the Messiah or the son of 377 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,280 God, he's also claiming to be king and king of the Jews. 378 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,280 So why would they say that to Rome? 379 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,280 Why would they say that to Pilate and to Herod? 380 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:06,280 Because that would be like trying to take Rome's position. 381 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,280 Who's king? 382 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,280 Caesar. 383 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:16,280 In the early church, the issue wasn't for Rome that they were 384 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:21,280 saying that Jesus is Lord. 385 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,280 The issue wasn't exactly only that they were saying Jesus is Lord, 386 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,280 it's that they wouldn't say that Caesar is Lord. 387 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:30,280 Does that make sense? 388 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,280 It's not just that they're not going to say Jesus is, that's fine. 389 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,280 You want to believe in God's, believe in God's. 390 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,280 They had plenty of them. 391 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:37,280 Who agrees? 392 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,280 The Romans had a lot of God's. 393 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,280 So many of them probably were glad and in fact that's kind of 394 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,280 what happened with Constantine. 395 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,280 He just made Christianity the state religion. 396 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,280 So that wasn't the issue. 397 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,280 The issue was I'm not going to say that Caesar is Lord. 398 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,280 So Rome has a problem with people trying to say they're going to 399 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,280 be king. 400 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,280 And I think what happened is the Pharisees said the way we're 401 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,280 going to be able to get him for blasphemy which transgresses our 402 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,280 own people and to get Rome to approve killing him is to say 403 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,280 that he's a king. 404 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,280 So they put king up over his cross. 405 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,280 That was a pronouncement of what they thought was the kind of 406 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,280 thing that would say, hey, we're all in agreement. 407 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,280 This guy is not a king and we're killing him. 408 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:28,280 This malefactor, this criminal looks at the other criminal. 409 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,280 And of course he's experiencing some of the supernatural things 410 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,280 happening at the cross. 411 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:39,280 And he looks over at Jesus and says to the malefactor, we're 412 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,280 guilty. 413 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,280 This guy's not guilty. 414 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,280 And then he looks at a naked man on a cross who claimed to be 415 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:52,280 king and says to him, what? 416 00:25:52,280 --> 00:26:01,280 Lord, remember me when you come into thy kingdom. 417 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:07,280 What do you have to believe to be saved? 418 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,280 You have to believe that Jesus is who he said he was. 419 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,280 That he is Lord. 420 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,280 Now there is a kind of theology that talks about lordship 421 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:21,280 salvation and lordship salvation says you have to make him Lord 422 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,280 of your life essentially. 423 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,280 It's kind of a, in my opinion, it's a putting together of 424 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:31,280 sanctification and salvation into one thing. 425 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,280 When I got saved, when I received Jesus' Savior, when I 426 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,280 called on the name of the Lord to save me, I knew that I was a 427 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,280 sinner. 428 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,280 But I didn't know how much of a sinner I was. 429 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,280 Because I was nine years old. 430 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,280 Right? 431 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,280 And before that I didn't have the Holy Spirit living inside of 432 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,280 me. 433 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:53,280 That makes sense? 434 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,280 And one of the things the Holy Spirit does is convictive sin. 435 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,280 Right? 436 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:04,280 And so what am I trying to say? 437 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,280 I think to be saved you have to acknowledge that you are a 438 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,280 sinner and you have to know that you are a sinner and you have 439 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:11,280 to know that. 440 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,280 But you don't necessarily know the extent of all that God needs 441 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,280 to do in your life one day. 442 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,280 Does that make sense? 443 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,280 This guy understood that he's a sinner. 444 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,280 He believed that Jesus is who he said he was. 445 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:31,280 He didn't have a firm grasp on all the theology, but he believed 446 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,280 enough of the theology to believe this. 447 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,280 This guy can get me to a kingdom. 448 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,280 He's a king that can get me to a kingdom. 449 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,280 And there seems to be something supernatural and spiritual 450 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,280 about this kingdom because he's a naked guy on a cross. 451 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,280 What's he going to do? 452 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,280 He must be God. 453 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,280 And what did Jesus say? 454 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,280 I love this. 455 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,280 And Jesus said unto him, verily. 456 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,280 You know what verily means? 457 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,280 Truly, but it's even more than that. 458 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,280 You know. 459 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,280 Have you ever heard somebody say honestly, blah, blah, blah, 460 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,280 blah, and you're like, why did you have to say honestly? 461 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,280 Are you dishonest all the rest of the time? 462 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:18,280 But he says here, verily, like you can take it to the bank. 463 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:24,280 Today, you shalt thou be with me in paradise. 464 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,280 Isn't that awesome? 465 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:32,280 He called on the name of the Lord. 466 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,280 Now, did that, the question is, is he up in heaven going, oh, look 467 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,280 how good I asked that question. 468 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,280 Look how I got to heaven. 469 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,280 Is that what he's thinking? 470 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,280 Did the prayer, if you want to call it a prayer, the speaking to 471 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,280 Jesus save him? 472 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,280 Or did, no, who saved him? 473 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,280 Jesus saved him. 474 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,280 What did Jesus respond to? 475 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,280 He responded to the guy's faith. 476 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:02,280 This guy believed that that guy on the cross can get me somewhere 477 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,280 I need to go. 478 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,280 He believed it and he was saved. 479 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,280 You know how you got saved? 480 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,280 Exactly the same way. 481 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,280 Isn't that good? 482 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,280 Why did Jesus come? 483 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:21,280 He came to redeem us, to redeem our souls. 484 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,280 It's not kind of interesting. 485 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,280 A bunch of people kept telling to Jesus, if you really are, save 486 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,280 yourself and us. 487 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,280 Right? 488 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,280 Did they walk away saved from that? 489 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,280 No. 490 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,280 Because they didn't believe. 491 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,280 This guy actually did believe one day we'll meet him. 492 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,280 Isn't that cool? 493 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,280 It's awesome. 494 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,280 Interesting too, a couple of things. 495 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,280 They tried to offer a vinegar. 496 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,280 He denied that. 497 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:02,280 There was a, it says vinegar mixed with a gall. 498 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:07,280 Some say that that would have been some kind of thing that 499 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,280 would dull the pain. 500 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,280 And I think it's interesting that Jesus didn't do it, don't you? 501 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:21,280 He took the full brunt of what he was dealing with. 502 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,280 Here's a third point. 503 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,280 Why did Jesus die? 504 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,280 What did Jesus' death do? 505 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:32,280 Jesus died to provide a route to our salvation. 506 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,280 A route to our salvation. 507 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:39,280 Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. 508 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,280 No man comes to the Father but by me. 509 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,280 Right? 510 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,280 Look at verse 44. 511 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,280 And it was about the ninth hour and there was darkness over all 512 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:53,280 the earth until the ninth hour and the sun was darkened and the 513 00:30:53,280 --> 00:31:00,280 veil of the temple was rent in the midst. 514 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,280 A couple of things. 515 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:11,280 The sixth hour was what time? 516 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,280 Six hours noon. 517 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,280 Their day started at six in the morning. 518 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,280 So the sixth hour would have been noon. 519 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,280 How many of you guys were at the eclipse? 520 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,280 Did you guys go outside? 521 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,280 That was amazing. 522 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,280 That was insane. 523 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:37,280 Did you notice the difference between a sliver of the sun and 524 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:42,280 then total, what do they call it? 525 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,280 Totality. 526 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,280 Totality. 527 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,280 Totality. 528 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,280 If you just get that little, yeah, anyway. 529 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,280 Here's my experience. 530 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,280 I was sitting out here in a lawn chair out in the parking lot and 531 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,280 that final little bit came and it was getting darker and darker 532 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,280 and then it went to dark and it basically looked like a sunrise 533 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,280 everywhere. 534 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,280 Did you guys see that? 535 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,280 I was so glad I was here at the church because where I was 536 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:21,280 sitting, I could see the total horizon basically. 537 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,280 The dome was in the way a little bit but basically because of 538 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,280 being out with the fields and everything, there weren't a lot 539 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,280 of buildings and you could just see the totes. 540 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,280 It's awesome. 541 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,280 So when I think of darkness, and I don't know if it was darker 542 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,280 than this in Jesus' moment, but it says it's a darkness, and it 543 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:47,280 was a kind of darkness that was obviously supernatural, right? 544 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,280 That's what's happening here. 545 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:55,280 Anybody here think it was kind of amazing that they could 546 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,280 calculate down to the moments of when this is all going to 547 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,280 happen. 548 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,280 So I was out there, the lights went down and all of our, like, 549 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,280 apparently we have a lot of sensors on the buildings of lights 550 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,280 that come on when it goes dark and that was really crazy. 551 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:18,280 So imagine at noon from the 6th hour to the 3 p.m., you have 552 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,280 this darkness over all the earth until the 9th hour, just this 553 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:27,280 amazing, there's no light, it's just dark. 554 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,280 And the sun was darkened in the veil of the, so when you think 555 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:38,280 about darkness, I believe with all my heart that this was God's 556 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:44,280 pronouncement over what was happening. 557 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:49,280 What I mean by that is that when things are dark and verboding, 558 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,280 what do you think of? 559 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,280 Who thinks it's happy? 560 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,280 If your kids do a coloring book and they draw a picture and 561 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,280 they're trying to draw something happy, there's a sun with the 562 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,280 smiley face, anybody ever get that picture? 563 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:11,280 Horses running in the fields or whatever. 564 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:17,280 If your kid is only drawing, like, darkness, you need a 565 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,280 picture, right? 566 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,280 Even kids understand that darkness is like a negative kind of a 567 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:24,280 bad thing. 568 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,280 And here's what's going on, there's this darkness that's 569 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,280 coming. 570 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,280 Often in the, even in the Old Testament, that's a description of 571 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,280 judgment. 572 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:38,280 And that's exactly what happened here. 573 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,280 In another passage, while this darkness was happening, my God, 574 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:48,280 my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 575 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,280 Here you have Jesus crying with a loud voice. 576 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,280 And he said, Father, into my hands, into thy hands I commend 577 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,280 my spirit. 578 00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:04,280 And having said thus, he gave up the ghost. 579 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,280 I want us to look a little bit on that verse number 45, though. 580 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,280 The Bible says in the veil of the temple was rent in the 581 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,280 middle. 582 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,280 I know this gets taught a lot. 583 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,280 I know we just went through Hebrews, but I want to say that 584 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:24,280 this is an incredible passage of Scripture and an incredible 585 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,280 another picture. 586 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,280 The darkness was one thing. 587 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,280 This renting down the middle, another passage tells us it's 588 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:37,280 from top to bottom. 589 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:44,280 And this was a picture of what was made possible by Jesus' 590 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,280 death. 591 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:50,280 In the temple, like in the tabernacle before it, there was a 592 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,280 place that was the holy of holies. 593 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,280 It's where the Ark of the Covenant was. 594 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:59,280 It's where only a priest could go, only the high priest could go, 595 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,280 only once a year. 596 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,280 And he would take the blood of a spotless lamb, and he would, on 597 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:12,280 the day of atonement, the day of expiating the sin of the nation, 598 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:18,280 atoning for sin, he would take the blood of a spotless lamb, and 599 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,280 with hissep and a bowl, he would dip it, and he would sprinkle it 600 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:28,280 on the mercy seat on the Ark in that holy place. 601 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,280 That holy of holies was the place that was, now, is God 602 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,280 everywhere? 603 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,280 God is everywhere. 604 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,280 But his manifest presence was often in the temple. 605 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:47,280 When they dedicated the temple, the shakina glory of God came 606 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:51,280 down and represented where God was. 607 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,280 And he's so holy and other than that you can't just go in there. 608 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,280 The Bible says no one seen God and lived, right? 609 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:07,280 And in that sense, if you see God without any kind of protection, 610 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,280 without any kind of veil, and Colossians talks about that, 611 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,280 and Hebrews talks about that, you fall over dead. 612 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:21,280 But here, because of what Jesus did, when he dies, the veil that 613 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:32,280 separated the people from God is torn from top to bottom. 614 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,280 And this is what Paul said as a commentary about the difference 615 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,280 between what happened in that old covenant and what happens now. 616 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,280 He says this, what? 617 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:50,280 Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? 618 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,280 What you have of God and you are not your own for you are bought 619 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,280 with a price? 620 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,280 What was the price? 621 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,280 The blood of Jesus. 622 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,280 You were bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your 623 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,280 body and in your spirit, which are God's. 624 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,280 We don't go to a temple to get into the presence of God. 625 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:19,280 We believe in God and he makes his abode in us. 626 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,280 That's the difference. 627 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:28,280 He gave us access, a route to the Father. 628 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,280 I am the way Jesus said, the truth and the life. 629 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:38,280 No man comes to the Father but by me. 630 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,280 I love this. 631 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:47,280 In verse 46, sorry, verse 47, now when the centurion saw what was 632 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,280 done, he glorified God saying, certainly this was a righteous 633 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,280 man and all the people that came together to that site, 634 00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:01,280 beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts and 635 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,280 returned and all his acquaintances and the women that followed 636 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:11,280 him with Galilee standing stood afar off beholding these things. 637 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:16,280 You know, you read in the book of Acts later that there were 638 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:21,280 actually Pharisees and priests coming to Christ in that early 639 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:22,280 church. 640 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:27,280 And I wonder if some of the very people that were instrumental 641 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:32,280 and seeing Jesus get put on the cross began to think differently 642 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,280 of them at the cross. 643 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,280 What's kind of funny too is some of those same people caused 644 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,280 problems in the church. 645 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,280 So I'm not saying the same people that were at the cross. 646 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,280 I don't have any way to know that for sure but people that were 647 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,280 some of those religious leaders that were trying to combine the 648 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:54,280 law and grace, that was kind of an interesting thing. 649 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,280 But here's what's amazing. 650 00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:07,280 Jesus paid for the sin of the people who were killing him. 651 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:11,280 Who were mocking him. 652 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:19,280 And when he did it and when it was completed, supernaturally, 653 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:26,280 the veil torn and let everybody know by the blood of Christ, 654 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:30,280 by the power of the Holy Spirit, by the grace of God, 655 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,280 you and I can go to God even like tonight. 656 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,280 You know, you don't have to be in this building to have prayer 657 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,280 time. 658 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,280 You don't have to be in this building to have prayer time. 659 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,280 You have prayer time outside of this building to have a dwarf 660 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,280 what you do in this building. 661 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,280 Right? 662 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,280 Because this is just, I'm glad we have a building. 663 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,280 Are you guys glad for our building? 664 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,280 Find a home under the dome, that's what I say. 665 00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:01,280 But this building is going away. 666 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,280 It is. 667 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,280 We're going to try to keep up with it as best we can. 668 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,280 We've got Jeff helping us out, trustees. 669 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,280 Jeff, you know, we're going to try to keep up with it. 670 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,280 But this isn't a sanctuary. 671 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,280 Not in that way. 672 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,280 Not like the temple was. 673 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,280 This is a building. 674 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,280 It's a place where we meet. 675 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,280 It's a special place. 676 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,280 People get saved here, aren't you glad for that? 677 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,280 You made decisions here yourself. 678 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,280 We worship God here. 679 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,280 I'm not saying it's not special. 680 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,280 What I'm saying is there's nothing about this place that gets 681 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,280 saved. 682 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,280 That doesn't mean you shouldn't assemble. 683 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,280 Don't forsake the assembling of yourselves in the manner some 684 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,280 is. 685 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,280 Right? 686 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,280 It's right to do. 687 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,280 But like Jesus said to that woman at the well, there's coming a 688 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,280 time where neither in Jerusalem nor in the mountains will you 689 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,280 worship. 690 00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,280 Those who worship him will worship him in what? 691 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,280 Spirit and in truth. 692 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,280 In truth. 693 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,280 That's the way we are. 694 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,280 To provide a root for our salvation. 695 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,280 I know it's Wednesday night. 696 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,280 I know almost everybody in here by name. 697 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,280 And I've heard many of your testimonies. 698 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,280 Not all of them. 699 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:27,280 And can I be as bold as to say that if you stand before God, 700 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,280 all of us are going to stand before God one day. 701 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:38,280 And you getting to heaven is not going to be based on any good 702 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,280 works that you do. 703 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,280 Your church membership. 704 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,280 I mean we believe in a regenerate church membership. 705 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,280 We make sure people know Christ and have a solid salvation 706 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,280 testimony before they can be an official member of our church. 707 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,280 And so in that sense, you know, but church membership doesn't 708 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,280 save you. 709 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,280 You can swindle us and tell us you're saved. 710 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,280 And somehow get your name on the roll. 711 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,280 But that doesn't put your name on the roll. 712 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,280 Are you with me? 713 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,280 Has there ever been a person that was a member of Trinity Baptist 714 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,280 Church and lost? 715 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,280 Probably has happened. 716 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,280 Not because we wanted it to happen. 717 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,280 Right? 718 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,280 Teaching Sunday school, being the son of a preacher man, 719 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,280 it ain't going to get you there. 720 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:33,280 God has no grandchildren. 721 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,280 What's going to get you there is Jesus. 722 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:41,280 And Bible says without faith it's impossible to please God. 723 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,280 So what is this death on the cross all about? 724 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,280 The Bible says the gospel is this. 725 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,280 This is the gospel by which we are saved. 726 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:56,280 It's the thing we ought to proclaim that Christ died for our sins 727 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,280 according to the scriptures. 728 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:03,280 That he was buried and rose again the third day according to the 729 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,280 scriptures. 730 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,280 The Bible says if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord 731 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:09,280 Jesus. 732 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,280 And believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead. 733 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,280 Why was he dead? 734 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,280 Because he died on the cross. 735 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,280 Why did God raise him from the dead? 736 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,280 To prove that what he did on the cross he accepted. 737 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,280 Are you with me? 738 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:29,280 So in that Romans 10, 9, you have the understanding of Jesus 739 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:34,280 as God, of him being innocent, of him dying for our sins, of him 740 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:39,280 being buried, and him actually bodily rising. 741 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,280 If you believe that, confess with your mouth. 742 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,280 This is what the heart man believes unto righteousness with the 743 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,280 mouth confessions made to salvation. 744 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:52,280 Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 745 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,280 Are you with me? 746 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,280 Prayer doesn't save you. 747 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,280 Jesus saves you. 748 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,280 When you put your faith and trust in Christ, the Bible says you 749 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,280 can know heaven as your home. 750 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,280 You can be right with God. 751 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:06,280 You can be saved. 752 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,280 That's what we call being obedient to the gospel. 753 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,280 That's how it happens. 754 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,280 Why did Jesus die? 755 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,280 What does his death bring us? 756 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,280 It provides remission for our sins, redemption for our soul. 757 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:26,280 And our root for salvation. 758 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,280 That's what it did. 759 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:32,280 Would you bow your heads and close your eyes with me? 760 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,280 Pastor Ben, that seems weird to give a salvation message on a 761 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:41,280 Wednesday night. 762 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:45,280 I don't think there's a bad time for it. 763 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:50,280 If you're here tonight and you're realizing I'm a sinner, 764 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,280 I'm a sinner, I'm a sinner. 765 00:45:52,280 --> 00:46:21,280 And I've been trusting in my good work.